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League of Legends |OT13| Diamond is Unreachable
- Thread starter Dobkeratops
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People can do dumb or weird things and not get banned. I have accidentally played as support with teleport. I have played a decent amount of Garen jungle. I play with people that regularly pick stuff like Shaco support. Those are not ways someone gets banned. Players get banned for ruining the experience of their teammates on a regular basis. These are not well meaning people who step slightly out of line and get banned.
there's degrees to that
you might be playing a different game by playing competitively and wanting to win but that doesn't mean you'll steep to any lows just to win
most people would probably want to have agency on how the game's played and not want to random dude decide it for them
I don't agree. Having a high quality ranked game is much more fun than dicking around in trollish games. Playing random shit is the furthest away from fun the game will get from me. Winning is fun, but even a loss can be fun if it's a high quality game.
Hydrophobic
Member
Wait, is your summoner name really Roman Reigns? lol
Tizoc
Member
Brilliant art.
Gotta make Ramen look stronk.
Hydrophobic
Member
That's exactly what I was thinking
Peanut Butter
Member
"Sup fam! We see you're trying to play hard for a win, and you're not trolling, but since people in the League community want things their way, we're gonna lock your account and meddle for no reason."
This is all that matters. If they are doing something that is actually wrong, they should get punished. People don't need to get their accounts locked and receive mini interventions by Player Support because people don't like how they spend their time. Riot should 100% be on the side of the player who is playing off-meta stuff, and this new account lock thing is pointless.
Stone Ocean
Member
I don't get what locking out an account accomplishes. If they think the guy isn't trolling why do they even need to force him to talk to support in the first place?
What a half assed stance. If anyone tries to pull this jungle support shit with me in rank I'm pulling a Newt and showing them my pattented on hit ADC Cho, after all its fine as long as I dont int and try to win.
What a half assed stance. If anyone tries to pull this jungle support shit with me in rank I'm pulling a Newt and showing them my pattented on hit ADC Cho, after all its fine as long as I dont int and try to win.
PeskyToaster
Member
I bought Akali on a whim and she's pretty fun. I'm not really winning games more often lol but I'm usually winning lane and having fun so that's nice I guess.
Should I be playing tank akali?
Should I be playing tank akali?
You do realize Enve plays for SKT, right?
PhillipCostigan
Member
So me and my team have been working on this for a while: Slumber Party! A big EU event we're doing this weekend.
Peanut Butter
Member
Stone Ocean
Member
Yeah, what about ARAM players
Nobody can choose their champ on ARAM and I'm pretty sure champs like Udyr are weighted as very uncommon rolls.
Hydrophobic
Member
tfw not even LeagueGAF remembers twisted treeline.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Told you guys about new yorick
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Riot's Unlocked series look similarly detailed and of the same quality. And cost like a third the price.
Orochinagis
Member
I dont think you can compare a bubble head figure to a detailed scale figure of the original
I don't get it.
I'm talking about the Unlocked Series, not the little chibi things.
unlocked series is similar but i don't like katarina and just wanted to complain
Riot still can't nail faces. That I will give you. That Ashe face especially, blergh.
Orochinagis
Member
Ewwww, the good thing about Overwatch design is most of the have some clean and stylish design meanwhile in Riot have some sort of "used" and complex design its hard to translate to a figure
I think you might want to check out Mark Rosewater's player archetypes for Magic The Gathering (which do apply to other kinds of games as well, IMO), one of which is Spike, the competitive player who derives fun from winning. He doesn't care about building creative decks or making flashy plays, he wants optimal stuff that makes him win and cares little to nothing about other aspects of the game.
Still, LoL's different in that each individual player has less agency by virtue of it being a 5v5 game, so it does make sense that someone going smite support Singed might be complicating things to his teammates who aren't used to that particular playstyle even if everyone on the team is playing to win, but I do agree that not banning them as long as they aren't voluntarily sabotaging the game for their teammates is fair. After all, I've had several games where people would rage at my tp top Singed with stupid stuff like "get a real top like Darius, ffs" when I was doing my job splitpushing to divert attention and actually going to teamfights whenever I could.
Now that I think about it, low elo might be even worse for bogus reports since people are in an awkward position where some of them are slaves to a lcs metagame that doesn't really apply to them, and often even go as far as to keep picking or banning champs long after they got nerfed to the ground because they don't even follow patch notes, but do rage at anyone for off-meta picks. Earlier this season I got way too many people hating on my support Malz with comments such as "ffs stop copying crazy koreans", and it was only because I started playing it earlier than most other bronze players after having watched a couple Aphromoo streams and realizing that Malz was really powerful and easy to use as a support.
That the biggest issue with reports in bronze, since people constantly whine about "off-meta" picks and might even report them. I mean, I've seen way too many players asking teammates or the rival team to report some other player because they were doing badly, when it was clear they weren't actually inting but just doing random dumb bronzie plays. ADCs even threatened to report my Nami because I wasn't sticking to them 24/7, and they happened to die at those times when they somehow decided pushing a reset lane all the way into the enemy's inhibitor turret by themselves was a good idea (hint: it wasn't).
In general, Mark Rosewater's articles / podcasts (+ his talk at GDC last year, really good if anyone is interested in design and has an hour to spare) is a lot of what inspired or directed most my design philosophy thoughts. Mostly a random tidbit but it's always nice to see the Spike article referenced
It all exists in this weird area of gauging intent with the outcome along with how often people don't get why they win or lose particularly well; all of this then combined to try and make a generalization to work off of for all cases. X pick with Y is 'wrong' and then Z happened, therefore I can make some conclusion for all cases rather than gauging an individual situation.
PhillipCostigan
Member
what is your username again on league? I need to look at what is going wrong with your nami play.
We don't need a new champ. Too many champs, with only half that actually see regular play.
this week PogChamp
PhillipCostigan
Member
nah
The thing with meta shifts in solo queue is that they start from the top, and slowly trickle down to the bottom of the ladder. Remember when Ghostblade -> Cleaver Lucian first started becoming popular? It started in high elo Korean solo queue. From there it transfers to different regions, starting with Challenger/Masters/Diamond. Then we start going down the ladder. Platinum and Gold are next, and finally Silver and Bronze start changing.
I remember playing a game in Silver 4 pre-season 7, a guy was building Cleaver -> GB Lucian even after the Lethality changes (this was when it was garbage, only gave 40% initially) He said it was OP and went 0/7.
it's not really a bronze thing, by riot's own words there's only a handful of these people that get banned every year
most ppl playing weird shit are either really trolling or aren't disruptive to a degree that finds themselves being consistently reported enough to warrant a ban
people just don't like playing with support singed, it's not a flaw of the system or people misusing it, it's people using it correctly to dictate what they feel is cool and what isn't
most ppl playing weird shit are either really trolling or aren't disruptive to a degree that finds themselves being consistently reported enough to warrant a ban
people just don't like playing with support singed, it's not a flaw of the system or people misusing it, it's people using it correctly to dictate what they feel is cool and what isn't
LOL DEAD. the whole thing around lethality is a perfect example of people not knowing why it is op.
Night of edge was broken, but not many people started building it till riot made a big deal about it.
Note this was when I was low Silver.
Stone Ocean
Member
Riot said new champ had a reason to take this long, I wonder what it is?
Same as my username, and remember I play on LAS (I think I made a LAN account by mistake when I was getting started).
looking at your nami build.
on your first back if you do not have enough for sightstone+boots.
get boots two faerie charms and then vision wards.
the extra mana per sec allows you to pop off more heals and provides sustain. plus as nami you can never have enough faerie charms because not only do they stack, but most of her items require at least two per item.
instead of mobility boots get cdr boots instead. nami has a fast base speed, plus your E cost basically nothing once you get that redemption mana regen.
your nami looks like it does the job, So I would just focus on improving oneself.
Blink once for lightning mid laner
Kennen?